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posted by janrinok on Wednesday June 24 2015, @05:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the you-can't-make-this-up dept.

Techdirt reports that the German government, armed with a law that has its origin in more captive content (movies -- the kind shown in theatres) and attempting to apply it to the internet (ebook sales).

Heise.de (German) and Boersenblatt (German) reported on Friday and Thursday that the Jugendschutzbehörde (Youth Protection Authority) has handed down a new ruling which extended Germany's Youth Media Protection Law to include ebooks.

As a result of a lawsuit (legal complaint?) over the German erotica ebook Schlauchgelüste (Pantyhose Cravings), the regulators have decided that ebook retailers in Germany can now only sell adult ebooks between 10 pm and 6 am local time (4 pm and midnight, eastern US).


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  • (Score: 1) by jalopezp on Wednesday June 24 2015, @03:37PM

    by jalopezp (2996) on Wednesday June 24 2015, @03:37PM (#200427)

    A naked sunbather might not be pornographic in germany, but I'm pretty sure any way you look at it a naked woman wearing pasties and advertising a sex shop would be pretty pornographic.

  • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Wednesday June 24 2015, @06:28PM

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday June 24 2015, @06:28PM (#200512) Journal

    I disagree - if the advert was shown in an airport then it was probably not what anyone in Europe would consider 'pornographic'. Opinions differ considerably. The subject being advertised might be pornography, but the advert could show a partly clothed woman (pasties etc) without most people even noticing it.

    • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday June 24 2015, @07:35PM

      by tangomargarine (667) on Wednesday June 24 2015, @07:35PM (#200542)

      Cf. "partly clothed" vs. "mostly naked"...you have to cover like, what, 5% of your body to be legally clothed on a beach?

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